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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
a skilful musician, as there is extant a piece of five-part music
for the ioist psalm, stated to have been composed 'by Maister
Andro Blakehall in Halyrudehouse, 1569, and giffen in propyne
to the kyng.' As this air perfectly suits the song in the Maitland
Manuscript, there can be little doubt that the one was composed
for the other. It seems, therefore, allowable to give in this place
a selection from the somewhat tedious verses of the song, in
connection with the air ; a fair specimen of the formal, well-bred,
but not very engaging chamber minstrelsy of the reign of the
Sixth James.
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